Occupationally acquired Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in a healthy abattoir worker

An otherwise healthy male abbatoir worker presented to his general practitioner with acute hypoxemia due to bronchopneumonia. His only occupational exposure was cleaning cow carcasses being prepared for consumption. Blood cultures were eventually positive for Pasteurella multocida. To our knowledge,...

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Autores principales: Pradeepan, Shyamala, Tun Min, Sandy, Lai, Katy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536550
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.07.014
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author Pradeepan, Shyamala
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description An otherwise healthy male abbatoir worker presented to his general practitioner with acute hypoxemia due to bronchopneumonia. His only occupational exposure was cleaning cow carcasses being prepared for consumption. Blood cultures were eventually positive for Pasteurella multocida. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in an abattoir worker, and illustrates the importance of considering this infection in patients with animal exposures.
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spelling pubmed-49757072016-08-17 Occupationally acquired Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in a healthy abattoir worker Pradeepan, Shyamala Tun Min, Sandy Lai, Katy Respir Med Case Rep Case Report An otherwise healthy male abbatoir worker presented to his general practitioner with acute hypoxemia due to bronchopneumonia. His only occupational exposure was cleaning cow carcasses being prepared for consumption. Blood cultures were eventually positive for Pasteurella multocida. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in an abattoir worker, and illustrates the importance of considering this infection in patients with animal exposures. Elsevier 2016-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4975707/ /pubmed/27536550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.07.014 Text en © 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Occupationally acquired Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in a healthy abattoir worker
title_full Occupationally acquired Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in a healthy abattoir worker
title_fullStr Occupationally acquired Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in a healthy abattoir worker
title_full_unstemmed Occupationally acquired Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in a healthy abattoir worker
title_short Occupationally acquired Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in a healthy abattoir worker
title_sort occupationally acquired pasteurella multocida pneumonia in a healthy abattoir worker
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536550
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.07.014
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